Miscellaneous: SP0022

Title

William Shakespeare

Technique

Pottery

Subject

Shakespeare, William

Artist

Unknown

Dimensions

Height: 4.4cm
Width: 4.4cm
Depth: 0.7cm

Other materials

Earthenware

Inscription/signature

"Shakes- / peare" (engr: on verso); "Barre" (isncr: in pencil on verso) ["Black / 'Wedgwood' / portrait" (accompanying note)]

Provenance

The M.H. Spielmann Collection; given to the Garrick Club by Lincoln Kirstein, 1983

Other number

Gift 906

Literature

Ashton (with the help of Gertrud Seidmann), "The M H Spielmann Collection of Shakespeare Portraits." c.1982. Unpublished manuscript in the Garrick Club Library, Garrick Club Box 4, No.22

A carved bust of Shakespeare in profile looking to left.